Jorg Janke - thoughts, doubts and ideas

February 2011

02/22/2011

When thoughts come up during meditation, the advice is to acknowledge and label them - and return to your breathing. Among the usual labels, I have one called "solution". The majority of thoughts coming up are easily dismissed, but I actually don't like to dismiss the solution category.

These "solutions" are often creative ideas in areas I was stuck. Some sort of minor "eureka" moments which I encounter also in the shower or during walks.

This inspired me to think a bit more about creativity and meditation - and what impact meditation might have on creativity. For me as a software developer, creativity is very important. I see two two main aspects: the drive to be creative and the creative process.

02/20/2011

Sounds simple: I want to deploy the project artifact (jar) while generating Clover code coverage reports and use them in Sonar. So, the Maven goal is just "clean deploy" and selecting the Clover and Sonar options in Bamboo. Well, does not work.

The main problem is that the Clover instrumented classes don't work with javadoc nor Sonar, and I want the clover report to be used in Sonar. Would be easy, if you could just clean the target/classes directory. Works also nicely if you add cobatura:cobatura before sonar:sonar, but who wants to run the unit tests three times?

After some time experimenting with various options, here is what I did:(I am using the more-or-less current versions of the products)

02/19/2011

Why do I meditate? Mainly to improve concentration and decision making - areas one always should try to improve.

Why did I start meditating? I am practicing Chen style TaiChi for a while and I was told again and again, that meditating would help improving my "Chi". TaiChi is also characterized as "movement meditation" and it took a while for me to realize that "standing meditation" would improve that. I heard that Bruce Frantzis is especially good at Chi development and finally got his meditation set. This and the constant reminders of Sifu Tony Wong motivated me to actually start practicing.